Keybind that allows for literal editing of interactive rebase files

[LucianoLaratelli]

Hello,

I love magit's interactive rebase feature; it is delightful and I am happy every time I get to use it.

One thing I would like to be able to do is reorder multiple commits at once.
Right now, I can reorder a commit with g{j,k}. This works fine for single commits, but if I have a block of commits I can't select them and then g{j,k} them. Ideally, this would be supported inside magit, but I recognize that may not be possible.

A friend came up with this workaround, which seems to work:

1. switch to fundamental-mode
2. toggle read-only-mode
3. At this point, you can move things around easily, because it's just text
4. Switch back to git-rebase-mode

It would be nice if magit had a keybinding that dropped one into directly editing the rebase file and then (when in that mode, maybe magit-rebase-literal-mode or something) another keybinding that got one back to the normal rebase mode.

Thank you all for your hard work on this wonderful project!

[tarsius]

but if I have a block of commits I can't select them and then g{j,k} them.

Yes you can; just mark them using the region before using the movement commands.

[LucianoLaratelli]

Oh interesting. This may be a bug in EVIL or Doom then, I'll look further there. Thanks Jonas :)